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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] i8254: Factor out base class for KVM
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On 2012-02-01 13:23, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/31/2012 10:49 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>  Just make the methods that you want to override virtual with the default
>>>  implementation and then make a KVMPIT that inherits from the PIT and
>>>  then overrides whatever virtual functions it needs to.
>>
>> That doesn't sound like the proper design for this purpose. Rather, we
>> have an abstract base class that both implementations are derived from.
> 
> Absolutely!
> 
>> If I'm not using QOM properly to achieve this, please tell me.
> 
> It looks good, besides the need to rebase to Anthony's "part 3" changes.

Given that this part is not upstream and that the relevant conversion is
scripted, I would leave this to Anthony so far. Or what is the schedule?

Jan

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